Benedetto "Nitto" Santapaola, the Sicilian mafia boss convicted of a string of mafia murders in the 1980s and 1990s, has died ...

Cosa Nostra leader, who controlled most of eastern Sicily, dies while serving multiple life sentences for murder ...

Convicted Sicilian mafia boss Benedetto "Nitto" Santapaola has died in a prison in Milan, Italy, media reports said Tuesday. The Cosa Nostra mafia boss, 87, who was arrested in 1993 and has been in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The man said to be the new head of the Sicilian Mafia has been arrested by Italian police along with 45 associates. Settimo Mineo, ...

When most people think of organized crime, they picture The Godfather: a structured hierarchy, a code of honor, violence that ...

A notorious Sicilian mafia boss who was behind several murders has died in an Italian prison.

The presumed new boss of the Cosa Nostra was arrested together with 45 other top mobsters, Italian authorities said Tuesday, striking a massive blow to the resurgent Sicilian Mafia. Settimo Mineo, 80, ...

The NBA faces a potential crisis as a gambling scandal reveals links to "La Cosa Nostra," the Italian-American Mafia. Investigators are exploring connections to illegal betting schemes and poker games ...

PALERMO, Sicily-- Close family members of the Sicilian Mafia's fugitive “boss of bosses” were arrested on Friday in one of most significant anti-crime operations in Sicily in years, police said.

ROME -- Italian authorities have seized 1.6 billion euros ($1.76 billion) in wealth from Sicilian construction company officials with alleged ties to Mafia crime families in Corleone, a longtime Cosa ...